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Reality doesn't match perception for SEC in 2018

SportsPulse: USA TODAY Sports' Dan Wolken breaks down the burning questions heading into the 2018 SEC football season. USA TODAY

ATLANTA — The College Football Hall of Fame is a 94,000-square foot mecca to the sport, which makes it the only place big enough in space and epic enough in scope to house the Southeastern Conference’s perception of itself.

The SEC’s swagger is back — if it ever left. Six months after two of its programs, Alabama and Georgia, met to decide the national championship, the league is strutting through this week’s media days like the undisputed alpha dog of the Football Bowl Subdivision.